@Jackie Cramer: I agree it's been a bit of a roller coaster.

This time open up your checkbook a lot wider.The trade-off here as others have mentioned above is that your pool of qualified buyers is smaller with the tenant-occupied property, plus who wants to sell to an investor, were all a bunch of cheap-skates.

It's been quite a roller coaster ride for us in CA, as I'm sure it is for everyone.

We never have the roller coaster rides other cities and states due. 

@Yoni Benimetzky I have been in the middle of this roller coaster ride on a refinance here in Berwyn.

(Why let Fossil-Fuel energy companies skate?

Use a small diameter foam roller and foam brushes with oil based primer per the earlier post by a pro (I agree, zinser and Benjamin Moore make good ones)and throw the roller out afterwards.

We also previously supplied them with 5 gallons of paint and paint pans, rollers and a brush so they can freshen the place up.

And the border stones were locked in with stone dust and cement 3 to 1 mix dry packed and rolled with a vibratory drum roller . ( packs better than a little plate tamper)  Cracks filled with a 2 to 1 mic of wash sand and hydraulic cement dry packed .  

I've been reading, listening, and self educating through BP over the past couple years and have recently taken that first scary/exciting/emotional roller coaster of a step and purchased my first duplex out of state.